December 2024
Please note that there will not be a communiqué for January 2025
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The MURA Executive extends its wishes to all members
for a joyous and peaceful holiday season.
We look forward to seeing you at MURA Events in 2025!
Ante L. Padjen, President
Ginette Lamontagne, Past-President
Rosemary Cooke, VP Internal
Bob Stanley, Treasurer
Carlette Walker, VP External
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Save the Date!
CURAC National Conference
May 21-23, 2025
À¦°óSMÉçÇø Faculty Club
To celebrate its 10th Anniversary next year, MURA will host the 2025 National Conference of the College and University Retiree Associations of Canada ().
The theme isÌýThe Well-being of the Person, the Community, and the Planet.
An invitation will be sent to the over 20,000 individual members of CURAC retiree associations. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to reconnect with colleagues and make new acquaintances from across Canada, and partake in presentations by local academics based on the conference theme. This will be the first CURAC conference with simultaneous translation.
2024 MURA Holiday Lunch
Wednesday, November 20, 2024, noon – 3 p.m.
2000 Ste. Catherine West
Seventy-one members returned to our favourite place once again to celebrate the beginning of the holiday season. It was a wonderful opportunity to share an excellent gourmet meal with colleagues and friends. Thank you Robert Rafuse for taking photos that reflect the spirit of this lovely event. (Photos)
Items of Interest
À¦°óSMÉçÇø Community for Lifelong Learning
Winter Registration started on December 3, 2024
The Winter 2025ÌýProgram continues to offer a wide variety of study groups and lectures in three attendance options. Some study groups and lectures will be offered for online participation only, via Zoom; some will be offered for in-person only attendance in one of the MCLL classrooms. Other study groups will be offered in hybrid format.
Use this link for more information.Ìý
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2024 Friends Annual General Meeting & Celebration of Friend of the Year (Hybrid)
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m.sler Library of the History of Medicine.
Each fall, theÌýFriends of the À¦°óSMÉçÇø LibrariesÌýhold anÌýAnnual General MeetingÌýrecapping the year’s activities, highlighting future initiatives and connecting with one another.
The Friends also take this opportunity to celebrate and honour a Friend of the Year. This special Award is bestowed upon individuals or groups who have shown an unwavering commitment to the vision, mission and goals of the Friends of the Libraries and À¦°óSMÉçÇø Libraries as a whole. We are pleased to announce that the 2024 Friend of the Year will be awarded toÌýDr. Joseph Mario MolinaÌýfor his generosity and outstanding support of À¦°óSMÉçÇø Libraries and the Osler Library of the History of Medicine. Light reception to follow.
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Part-time positions at À¦°óSMÉçÇø for MURA Members
The University occasionally sends MURA information about part-time positions for members. These are casual in nature and do not lead to full-time work.
To be notified about these positions, please send an email to:Ìýmura-arum.association [at] mcgill.ca. If you are already on this list, you do not need to respond.
